Allegiance story
Aliens kidnap Picard and replace him with a duplicate, who sends the Enterprise to a pulsar . Meanwhile, the real Picard and three other captives try to escape from their prison.
27 total · 6 choice · 6 major · 15 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| alien point of view | choice | Abducting Aliens :: the kidnapping aliens had an odd outlook |
| cooperation | choice | Picard and prisoners must cooperate to escape alien experiment |
| loyalty to a leader | choice | Riker, Beverly, Troi :: Riker and crew to Picard's double as well as prisoners to real Picard on-and-off |
| mutual trust | choice | Picard and prisoners must trust one another to escape and crew to pesudo-Picard |
| the thirst for knowledge | choice | Abducting Alien no. 1, Abducting Alien no. 2 :: aliens in regard to human behavior |
| trust in a leader | choice | Riker, Beverly, Troi :: crew in Picard's double |
| conflict of cultural norms | major | The unnamed abducting aliens saw nothing wrong in toying with lives as they did, but perhaps learned their lesson when Picard deftly turned the tables on them. Tangentially, the pacifist and the anarchist aliens in captivity had trouble getting along on account of one wanting to eat the other. |
| covert alien observers | major | Abducting Aliens :: abducting aliens kidnapped humanoids to observe |
| leadership | major | Picard :: Picard takes leadership role among the prisoners |
| putting differences aside | major | prisoners must put minor differences aside, like pacifism and anarchy, in order to escape |